Type lore : popular fonts of today, their origin and use; the history of the art of typography succinctly related for practical men (1925)
Frazier, J. L. (Julius Leroy) · Chicago : The author · leaf 21
Chapter II. Sans Serif … letter known as "gothic." However, no work on the subjeft of types would be complete without consideration of block type, as it it one of the broad, distinftively marked letter forms, like roman, the aristocrat of letters, and, like roman, it is variously modified. So the few things necessary to be…
Typography · Printing
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